PiP / Crop scrubbing annoyance (disabled controls)

Synergy

Newbie Joined: Oct 02, 2017 13:52 Messages: 21 Offline

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Oct 06, 2019 23:48

This is something that has been annoying me for sometime, and I think would be a nice quality of life improvement.

Whenever I am working in the PiP designer or Crop & Zoom window, all of the editing controls are disabled (grayed-out) unless I am at the very beginning of the clip in the preview window.

This means that if I want to preview my work, or make an adjustment further along in the video, I must first return the playhead to the very beginning of the clip (i.e. press STOP) before the editing controls are enabled again so I can make further adjustments.

Obviously this hampers work-flow, and means I have to constantly reset the playhead to check my work, adjust, then scrub back to where I was to check again ... rinse and repeat.

I really can't see any reason for this behavior.

(P.S.) to be clear, I am NOT talking about PLAYING the video while editing -- I am simply referring to having the playhead at any point in the video other than the beginning, which seems to disable all PiP and Cropping controls.

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whyisthenameSaltyillegal

Newbie Joined: Jun 18, 2019 13:54 Messages: 31 Offline

Oct 13, 2019 14:15

Quote This is something that has been annoying me for sometime, and I think would be a nice quality of life improvement.

Whenever I am working in the PiP designer or Crop & Zoom window, all of the editing controls are disabled (grayed-out) unless I am at the very beginning of the clip in the preview window.

This means that if I want to preview my work, or make an adjustment further along in the video, I must first return the playhead to the very beginning of the clip (i.e. press STOP) before the editing controls are enabled again so I can make further adjustments.

Obviously this hampers work-flow, and means I have to constantly reset the playhead to check my work, adjust, then scrub back to where I was to check again ... rinse and repeat.

I really can't see any reason for this behavior.

(P.S.) to be clear, I am NOT talking about PLAYING the video while editing -- I am simply referring to having the playhead at any point in the video other than the beginning, which seems to disable all PiP and Cropping controls.

Same issue here. Try suggestioning it >here<

whyisthenameSaltyillegal

Newbie Joined: Jun 18, 2019 13:54 Messages: 31 Offline

Oct 13, 2019 14:17

One way to get around that issue is to go in fullscreen and back, which I do myself.
Still annoying but might cut some time.

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